Rabbit with Cabbage Rolls
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 2 Saddle of rabbit (total about 1 kg)
- 50 grams smoked Bacon
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 4 Juniper berries
- 4 peppercorns
- 500 milliliters Red wine
- 1 Savoy cabbage
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon peppers
- 500 grams Chestnuts (from a jar)
- 2 Apple
- 50 grams butter
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 cloves
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons Crème fraiche
Preparation steps
Trim rabbit and remove backbone and tendons. Chop tendons and backbone. Cut bacon into large pieces, place with tendons and bones into a large pot and fry 5 minutes. Peel onion and carrot, trim and dice both. Add prepared vegetables to the pot and continue cooking for 3 minutes. Add juniper berries, peppercorns, red wine and a little salt. Simmer everything over low heat uncovered for 40 minutes.
Remove outer leaves from the cabbage. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and blanch cabbage for 5 minutes then rinse with cold water. Drain chestnuts. Peel apples, cut into quarters, remove core and dice. Melt half of butter in a pan, add apples, sugar, cinnamon and cloves, sauté 3 minutes and season with salt. Add chestnuts and mix well.
Divide cabbage into individual leaves, remove thick ribs and place four 4 cabbage leaves on a work surface overlapping. Spoon some apple-chestnut mixture onto cabbage leaves, fold in sides, roll cabbage leaves around filling and tie with kitchen twine. Continue process for remaining cabbage and apple-chest nut mixture. Pour rabbit broth through a sieve into a pot, place cabbage rolls in the pot, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
Cut each rabbit fillet into four equal pieces, pound with the smooth side of a meat tenderizer until 2 cm (approximately 1 inch) thick and season with pepper. Heat remaining butter and oil in a pan and fry rabbit on each side for 2 minutes until browned. Mix roasting juices in a bowl with creme fraiche. Serve rabbit on plates with cabbage rolls and creme fraiche sauce.